One of the first AI programs was developed by Carl Djerassi in 1965. It bore the name Dendral and automatically discovered unknown forms of drugs. The name Dendral is an acronym for the term "Dendritic Algorithm".
Heuristic and Meta-Dendral
The project involved research into the two main programs, Heuristic Dendral and Meta-Dendral, as well as several subroutines. It was written in the Lisp programming language, which was considered the language of AI because of its flexibility.
Derivatives
Many systems were derived from Dendral, including MYCIN, MOLGEN, PROSPECTOR, XCON and STEAMER.
